Linux, single machine, nice, multiple beam vm, OOM killer

[LostKobrakai]

@soup

Fair enough as an intellectual exercise, maybe even interesting as an actual exercise too, but I think in any production system you’re better spending the effort building on Kubernetes et al and just scaling up new “grunt vm” nodes as the current workers approach a load limit (either via erlang’s inspection tools or node level inspectors). I think you may make it work, but really the failure point is still there, just hidden further down the line. Better to have the ability to scale anyway.

That’s probably fair advice for things in the cloud, but there are many use cases, where this is not possible and resources are indeed limited.